Alan Alda Quotes

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Alan Alda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

DoingI CanSatisfactionKnowing

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

Jesse Ventura

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I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Joel Osteen

GoodAttitudeFutureGodFaithHope

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

Stephen Curry

MyselfYouKnowKindNeverInside

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Siri Hustvedt

WorkFunnyExperienceCrazyFashion

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Romesh Gunesekera

GrowLearnYouWrongEldersWiser

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

Martina Navratilova

GoodOpportunitySportsSchoolHelp

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

Jon Taffer

ThinkArroganceNextMillionVenue

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

Desiree Rogers

MePlaceSearchingAlwaysGoingAm

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

William Styron

FindNewAnythingSomethingPleasant

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

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I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.

Shakuntala Devi

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In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

Scott Pruitt

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